The tone set by the images in the poem brings out a feeling of disappointment as well as frustration for the dream. In the opening response of lines 2 and 3, "Does it dry like a raisin in the sun?" » the poet gives a simile that evokes the pain of becoming a withered and distorted representation of the dream. Of all the possibilities the dream could have offered, he chose to go in the direction of irritation to set the tone of the poem. Langston exudes a feeling of discontent with the pictorial connotation he gives in lines 4 and 5: “Or fester like a sore, then run? His writing direction moves towards the anguish of the dream itself when the image depicts the frustration of the culture of African Americans; this will begins to build and will eventually spill out of the black community. In line 6 he uses the imagery of rotten meat, “…stinks of rotten meat.” Using this visual presents the dream as a piece of filthy meat to show that the dream could be tainted by a bad state of mind. Again, the words used show the tone of irritation of the poet. Mr. Hughes continues his writing by describing the crust and sugar of a syrupy candy, "Or crust and sugar, like a sweet candy." The rhythm of the poem begins to seem slow after the mention of syrup, and because of the number of syllables increasing from 7 in the previous